SE enough of the treadmill, please make the game more interesting!

[Nalien]

Except you then create inventory issues while forcing people to carry 50 sets of gear. We do not need inventory bloat.

You Spiritbond the gear and then you do whatever with it, you don't need to carry 50 sets... No inventory issue outside what unique gear (which plenty of people already hold onto for potential Glamours) already creates.

It's exactly the system Final Fantasy IX had, and you didn't carry every single piece of gear that game had now, did you? Once you've unlocked the stat you do away with the gear.